This is a way of dipping my toe in the water on Robert Bernstein's scripts for Lev Gleason; he was a major writer for them mostly after Dick Wood (their tenures overlapped in 1946-47) and alongside Carl Wessler and others. There may well be more Bernstein stories here that didn't jump out at me if he didn't use his typical exclamations.
Desperado not surprisingly is spun off Crime Does Not Pay as an anthology of nothing but Wild West crime stories after CDNPran them every so often. With #9 Desperado became the Western masked hero book Black Diamond Western.
In lieu of CDNP's Mr. Crime, the lead story of most issues of Desperado was narrated by an object--a gallows, a coin, a boot--long before that became a staple of the DC war books. Here a gun is narrating "Joe Slade" in #1.
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Desperado Anthology Stories
Written by Robert Bernstein
Desperado not surprisingly is spun off Crime Does Not Pay as an anthology of nothing but Wild West crime stories after CDNPran them every so often. With #9 Desperado became the Western masked hero book Black Diamond Western.
In lieu of CDNP's Mr. Crime, the lead story of most issues of Desperado was narrated by an object--a gallows, a coin, a boot--long before that became a staple of the DC war books. Here a gun is narrating "Joe Slade" in #1.
Desperado Anthology Stories
Written by Robert Bernstein
| June/48 | 1 | Joe Slade |
| Sam Bass, the Cross Eyed Dead Shot | ||
| Aug/ | 2 | Teton Jackson |
| Sep/ | 3 | The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang and Its Leader "Kid" Curry |
| Crazy Sam Brown | ||
| Johnny Ringo | ||
| Oct/ | 4 | "Doc" Holliday |
| Wes Hardin | ||
| Nov/ | 5 | King Hunter, the Self-Proclaimed King |
| Clay Cottrell | ||
| "Rattlesnake Jake" Fallon | ||
| Bat Slater | ||
| Dec/ | 6 | Joe Bowler |
| Sheriff Ted Tucker | ||
| Burly Will Grady and His Band of Ruthless Rustlers | ||
| Jan/49 | 7 | One Man Against Two Armies |
| "Buckskin" Frank Combs | ||
| [WESTERN WHODUNNIT?] | ||
| Feb/ | 8 | Cesar Leporello and the Phony Diamond of the Rio Grande |
| Fools' Gold | ||
| Blind Man's Bluff |